Disallow Octal Escapes (no-octal-escape)

As of version 5 of the ECMAScript specification, octal escape sequences are a deprecated feature and should not be used. It is recommended that Unicode escapes be used instead.

var foo = "Copyright \251";

Rule Details

The rule is aimed at preventing the use of a deprecated JavaScript feature, the use of octal escape sequences. As such it will warn whenever an octal escape sequence is found in a string literal.

The following patterns are considered warnings:

var foo = "Copyright \251";

The following patterns are not considered warnings:

var foo = "Copyright \u00A9";   // unicode

var foo = "Copyright \xA9";     // hexadecimal

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint 0.0.9.

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